Github user pvillard31 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1181#discussion_r86528178 --- Diff: nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-hadoop-bundle/nifi-hdfs-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/hadoop/PutHDFS.java --- @@ -315,21 +328,24 @@ public void process(InputStream in) throws IOException { final long millis = stopWatch.getDuration(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS); tempDotCopyFile = tempCopyFile; - boolean renamed = false; - for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { // try to rename multiple times. - if (hdfs.rename(tempCopyFile, copyFile)) { - renamed = true; - break;// rename was successful + if(!conflictResponse.equals(APPEND_RESOLUTION.getValue()) + || (conflictResponse.equals(APPEND_RESOLUTION.getValue()) && !destinationExists)) { + boolean renamed = false; + for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { // try to rename multiple times. + if (hdfs.rename(tempCopyFile, copyFile)) { + renamed = true; + break;// rename was successful + } + Thread.sleep(200L);// try waiting to let whatever might cause rename failure to resolve --- End diff -- To be honest, no I don't. I assume that there is some kind of asynchronous call we are doing before when talking to remote clusters and that we might need to make this try multiple times to actually succeed. Not sure if it is still required with the last versions of HDFS client but didn't want to change it.
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